[David Battle]

Thank you Don and Craig. Both very helpful posts.

You’re right I should clarify my statement about broadcasters (I was definitely overgeneralizing). I work in the DC market, our company produces mostly corporate to corporate video’s or in house video’s. Occasionally we’ll bring in some freelance shooters that do the majority of their work for FOX and CNN. These shooters have consistently shared that those media outlets are moving towards Panasonic, I know this for certain with FOX (CNN is questionable). Even still that could just be the DC market that is moving in that direction.

Overall for my company’s purposes the EX-3 seems like the better fit. Workflow is huge and ultimately the smaller size of the Sony fits our run and gun style much better than a full size Panasonic would. Also we edit on Final Cut Pro and from everything I’ve gathered Sony has made a point of making Final Cut a part of their system.

So thanks again for your posts, any additional thoughts or suggestions are greatly appreciated.